Spaceflight Simulation/Gaming Tools

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Spaceflight Simulation/Gaming Tools

• http://www.spaceengineersgame.com/ Voxel-oriented space construction and survival. Kind of a high-tech/high-rez Minecraft.

• http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/ Classic, insanely accurate orbital mechanics; many, many historic and SF spacecraft available. Don't miss the many valuable and useful add-ons and plugins available at the sites listed at http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/links.html Recently open-sourced.

• https://kerbalspaceprogram.com/en/?page_id=7 Accurate orbital mechanics, not quite as insane

• https://iss-sim.spacex.com/ SPACEX - ISS Docking Simulator This simulator will familiarize you with the controls of actual interface used by astronauts to manually pilot the SpaceX Dragon 2/Crew Dragon vehicle to the International Space Station

• https://www.nomanssky.com/ Updates have brought this originally sparse procedurally-generated exploration-and-survival game to quite respectable levels of playability. VR support and much richer multiplayer was added recently by the "Beyond" update.

• http://secondlife.com/ Faded from its 2007 glory days, this complicated social/building virtual world platform still has extensive Star Wars, Star Trek, Firefly and other SF role playing communities.

• https://smcameron.github.io/space-nerds-in-space/ and

• https://www.artemisspaceshipbridge.com/#/ are very similar in concept. I don't really know lot about them.

• https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/search.html?backendClass=both&q=space hundreds of 3d-mesh spacecraft models are available here; with skill they can be exported to Blender and other modelling tools

• http://www.merzo.net/indexSD.html Starship Dimensions: A Museum of Speculative Fiction inspired Spaceships, intended to allow science fiction fans to get an impression of the true scale of their favorite science fiction spacecraft by being able to compare ships across genres, as well as being able to compare them with contemporary objects with which they are probably familiar.

• https://www.deviantart.com/dirkloechel/art/Size-Comparison-Science-Fiction-Spaceships-398790051 The sucessor to Starship Dimensions